finding out years after first seeing "the five doctors" that there's an alternate take of No Not The mind Probe w/ far more emotion put into it feels so wrong.

okay americans i gotta ask because as an European i grew up with lots of american shows and cartoons and in a lot of them there was an episode where they give the protags a doll or an egg or a bag of flour or whatever and told them pretend to be its parents or something

Aliens publicity still with Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn.

i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

He fixed the TARDIS!?

before the poll, a quick definition of terms:

"mutual" - you found this post from a mutual (on their blog or your dash) "following" - you found this post from someone you're following, but who isn't following you "random" - you found this by scrolling through someone's blog, who you don't follow. this includes people following you "For You" - you found this on the For You page "recommended" - you found this in a "Check out these blogs" popup, or a "recommended" post when looking at a different post "other" - you found this post some other way. comment how? "reblog ✅" - you're going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post "reblog ❌" - you're NOT going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post

with that out of the way:

Cults are not just a white people thing. Especially in the US, predatory high control groups actively target disenfranchised people, especially immigrant populations who don't have the best grasp of English, and entered the country with a head full of American exceptionality propaganda.

Simply because you don't like me. I mean me. I mean me. I mean-

The Curse of Peladon was so fucking good holy shit. Politics, subterfuge, Jo gets to do something, Jon Pertwee sings, King Peladon is a sad, wet blanket you can’t help but feel sorry for, the lingering thought that Jean-Luc Picard would’ve shut all this shit down the minute the shenanigans started had the Enterprise been there, the batshit alien designs. Great fun the whole 100 minutes.

I really want to like The Giggle but it’s missing something the same way the worst Q episodes of Star Trek miss something: Q doing random bullshit cannot be the primary driver of the plot. Wacky Q nonsense is fun but it needs to have a purpose and in all the best episodes (Q-Who, Tapestry, All Good Things…) Q does just enough silly bullshit to get Picard to the real plot: whatever lesson he’s intended to learn. The Toymaker has none of this going on, he’s messing with the Doctor just because…. he’s an antagonist I guess?? So what was the point of the companion puppet show scene? If the Toymaker is trying to critique how the Doctor has handled caring for his companions and losing 1/4 of the universe to the flux then it’s really interesting! Or is he contriving this situation to warn the Doctor about the One Who Waits? But no he’s just being irritating because that’s who he is. The puppet show scene is so good and yet it goes nowhere (WELL THATS ALRIGHT THEN).

I don’t need or want the Toymaker to be a rehash of Q, but this episode would’ve really stuck the landing he had an actual reason for doing what he did. It would also make the sudden ‘losing the game of catch’ make sense. Q intends for Picard to win once he grasps the point. The Toymaker intentionally losing as a covert message to the Doctor (because that’s the only way he can communicate/he’s afraid of something idk) would be brilliant. And he could still kill people and be a menace! Q didn’t particularly care when people died in his episodes (Q-Who especially) in fact he blamed it on Picard being reckless even though it was he’s fault they were there in the first place.

Anyway this episode was so close and yet so far ughhhh I need doctor who to get better and fast

1.13 | 2.08

#CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS CHEERFUL AND HAPPY INTRO WAS FOLLOWED BY THE SCARIEST EPISODE IN DOCTOR WHO HISTORY

Father Ned, Pushing Daisies, season 2, Ep. 03 (Bad Habits)…

watching doctor who is just “wow, the doctor is a deeply flawed individual but their desire to help people is so strong that they’ll go against their own rules and destroy themselves in the process aaaaaaaaand now they’re licking parts of the spaceship okay then”

PUSHING DAISIES 2.09

Like thinking, thinking? It wasn’t premeditated.

PUSHING DAISIES 1x01 - Pie-lette